Joel Rose

The decision comes after immigration lawyers argued that the Trump administration has been holding children in inhumane conditions. The government denied the allegations.

The Trump administration says it has reunited 1,442 migrant children with their parents, but hundreds are still separated. The judge who ordered the reunification is now considering what to do next.

Hundreds of migrant families will not be reunited by Thursday's court-appointed deadline. The Trump administration says as many as 463 parents may no longer be in the U.S., and dozens more waived reunification voluntarily.

Immigration lawyers say they're seeing an alarming spike in the number of asylum claims that are being rejected at the earliest stage, known as the credible fear interview.

The federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to reunite the migrant families it separated now says the government cannot deport them after reunification until next week, at the earliest.

On some questions, people who get their TV news primarily from Fox News or CNN are even further apart than Republicans and Democrats. Viewers of the other big TV networks are somewhere in between.

None of the president's major immigration policies get majority support in a new NPR-Ipsos poll — but Republicans strongly back the border wall, the travel ban, and changes to legal immigration.

Who should get to be an American? That's one of the questions NPR and research firm Ipsos asked in a new poll.

The Trump administration says it will extend temporary protections for immigrants from Yemen for another 18 months because the country remains engulfed in a brutal Civil War.

Guatemalan migrant Yeni Gonzalez was reunited with her three children in New York City for the first time since they were separated at the Southwest border. Their reunion was emotional but temporary.

The government says it will hold migrant families longer than 20 days, according to a court filing from the Department of Justice Friday.

Protesters across the country are trying to disrupt the operations of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Politicians on the left are calling for the agency's abolition. Even some ICE investigators say the agency should be reorganized in the face of pushback to President Trump's immigration crackdown.

The Department of Defense plans to start building tent encampments on two military bases in Texas to house migrant families apprehended at the border.

A federal judge in California gave the Trump administration 30 days to reunite parents and children separated under its "zero-tolerance" policy. Immigrants and activists are hailing the ruling, while also bracing for a long legal fight.

Citizens of several mostly-Muslim countries are effectively banned from traveling to the U.S. after a Supreme Court ruling. Their family members are struggling to understand what comes next.

One pediatrician says the staff at a shelter facility told her that federal regulations prevented them from touching or holding a crying child to soothe her. The shelter says there's no such rule.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is imposing new limits on who can get asylum in the U.S. In a closely watched case, he said that most migrants fleeing domestic violence or gang violence won't qualify.

Jeff Sessions has broad powers over the nation's immigration courts and has long said that asylum-seekers are "gaming" the U.S. system.

In a response to the Trump administration's request to dismiss the suit, Judge Dana Sabraw ruled that the "wrenching separation" of children from parents may violate their right to due process.

Pablo Villavicencio, an Ecuadorean immigrant, was attempting to make a delivery at Fort Hamilton when he was detained and handed over to immigration authorities.